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a geeks history of the internet. How we arrived at web 2.0

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in the beginning… 700bc homing pigeons used to carry messages in ancient Greece…wireless is born. 1536 the @ symbol is first used by florentine merchant tran cesco lapi . 1837 william f cooke and Charles Wheatstone install the first railway telegraph system. 1861 pony express replaced by telegraph. 1937 work begins on the first digital computer. 1951 manchester university take delivery of the first commercial computer. 1956 Ibm release fortran the first computer language. 1876 alexander graham bell transmits first words electronically ‘come here mr watson I need you’ - he had just spilt some acid in his lab. 1958 first data transmitted via phone network. 1962 first computer game ‘space wars’ finished - the joystick would be created later that year. 1963 mouse created. 1965 gordon moore declares computer power will double every 18 month - moores law still holds today. 1969 first 2 computers connected via ARPANET. 1976 the queen is the first head of state to send an email. 1978 first unsolicited junk mail is sent . 1982 tcp/ip protocol introduced . 1972 first email is sent . 1973 ARPANET joins first computers internationally .

merging data within various social networks and on-off line aps so that you don’t have to duplicate and synchronize your data across applications or services.

Integration of pay per click web aps & internet services

The ability to edit photos from your corporate flickr account with an online version of photoshop (paid for per user per month), and put the images straight into a campaign marketing tool to send to your google mailing list, tracking you newsletter in real time (on a pay click basis.)

Predictive search engines

The ability of search engines to predict what information you will look for next based on the searches that you are currently performing or content of watched news feeds.

Authorative tagging levels for user generated content

The ability of peer groups and industry experts to rate content of blogs and user provided content to give some degree of data credibility.

predictions on future direction…

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<image sources> all of the images in this presentation came from flickr

cover : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannyman/323698320/

superhighway : http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandejackson/2236226854/

<contributions> Thanks to the north east it managers network, codeworks and twict. Special Thanks to graham jordan, james burke, gareth rushgrove and peter kerr. <Produced by> david coxon, www.davidcoxon.com <content sources> much of the content of this presentation came from online communities and shared content http:// www.anderbergfamily.net /ant/history http:// en.wikipedia.org .